Commonly, people associate strokes with things like difficulty speaking, drooping on one side of the face and weakness on one side of the body.

But Dr Carcel said that the atypical symptoms listed above make it ‘more challenging for those seeing them at hospital to immediately recognise that they are having a stroke’.

The neurologist advised women to be less hasty when they assume that what they are suffering from is not the early sign of a potential stroke.

Professor Anushka Patel, from the George Institute for Global Health, added that many women still believe ‘that women don’t suffer heart attacks or strokes, and they’re male problems’.

‘We tend to decide what are typical symptoms – whether it’s for heart attack or stroke – around what happens to men, because men are most researched,’ she told the publication.

A bad diet, no exercise, excessive consumption of alcohol and smoking are all lifestyle factors which can increase the risk of stroke.

But for women, there’s an increased risk of stroke during or directly after childbirth, too.

Professor Patel concluded by saying that women need to pay attention to the atypical symptoms of stroke, as well as the typical.

‘Weakness on one side of the body is not the only sign for stroke. If you’ve got unexplained symptoms, recurrent or abnormal symptoms that might represent heart attack or stroke you should get them checked out,’ she said.